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How blockchain helps address world energy issues

We can expect to see more straightforward applications of energy blockchains in the near term allowing us, among other things, to select the source of our power MGMT and Eels headline Siren’s Call Majerus 5th place in penultimate cyclo-cross world cup As ‘cryptomania’ gripped trading markets at the end of 2017, a disturbing fact about the early blockchain algorithms used in currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple came to the fore: they use staggering amounts of electricity. Estimates suggest that powering Bitcoin’s daily transactions–the largest of the cryptocurrencies by market value–consumes the energy equivalent of a country , recently […]